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3 True Alone at Night Horror Stories That Will Haunt Your Every Step · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: This happened last January. I had taken a week off
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  Speaker 1: of work following New Year's mostly in hopes that everyone
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  Speaker 1: else would be back at work by then and I
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  Speaker 1: could enjoy the week without it being busy everywhere. My
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  Speaker 1: plans consisted of shopping around and really just chilling at
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  Speaker 1: my apartment by myself. On this day, I was out
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  Speaker 1: driving around in the snow and going to a few stores,
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  Speaker 1: then made my way back to the apartment by seven pm.
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  Speaker 1: I went inside and cooled off, then took a seat
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  Speaker 1: on the couch with some snacks I had just got.
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  Speaker 1: I was watching TV and even dozing off a little
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  Speaker 1: bit from the long day out of the house. But
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  Speaker 1: then at some time around eight thirty, the PA system
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  Speaker 1: in my apartment buzz, meaning that someone was outside and
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  Speaker 1: wanting me to let them in the building. I had
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  Speaker 1: no plans of anyone coming over, so I had no
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  Speaker 1: idea who it was. They buzzed my room again, so
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  Speaker 1: I got up and went to the window that faced
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  Speaker 1: the front of the building. I tried to not lift
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  Speaker 1: the blinds too much, only enough for me to see
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  Speaker 1: who it was. At the door to the apartment building
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  Speaker 1: was a large man. It was still snowy out and
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  Speaker 1: kind of dark, but I could tell he was older,
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  Speaker 1: like mid forties, but I had never seen him before.
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  Speaker 1: There were only three other people living in the complex
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  Speaker 1: at the time, so I was at least familiar with
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  Speaker 1: who lived here, and he was not one of them.
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  Speaker 1: I also figured that if he did live here or
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  Speaker 1: was visiting one of the other people, then they would
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  Speaker 1: let him in. I walked over to the PA system
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  Speaker 1: and muted it, then got back to the couch and
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  Speaker 1: continued watching TV. I really didn't put any more thought
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  Speaker 1: into it, and even dozed off several times in the
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  Speaker 1: next hour. Eventually I shut off the TV and went
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  Speaker 1: to bed. By then it had to be around ten.
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  Speaker 1: I fell asleep. Just about as soon as I laid down.
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  Speaker 1: A few hours into the night, my eyes shot open
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  Speaker 1: to a thud from just outside my room. It was
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  Speaker 1: extremely loud, but having just woken up to it, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know what it was or exactly where it came from.
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  Speaker 1: My heart was racing as I stared across the room
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  Speaker 1: at my door, listening for anything else. It was very
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  Speaker 1: quiet now, almost like nothing even happened. I got out
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  Speaker 1: of bed and slowly moved toward the door. Then leaned
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  Speaker 1: my ear against it to listen to the other side.
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  Speaker 1: It was still quiet, nothing more than the walls creaking
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  Speaker 1: from the building. I turned the handle and looked out
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  Speaker 1: into the living room, not seeing anything out of the ordinary.
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  Speaker 1: The whole place was really dark, though, and for some reason,
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  Speaker 1: I still felt like I needed to be quiet and
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  Speaker 1: not make myself known, so I left the lights off.
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  Speaker 1: As I moved through the living room and looked down
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  Speaker 1: the front hallway, the door to my apartment was fully open.
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  Speaker 1: I froze up, staring at the open doorway and feeling
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  Speaker 1: fear run through my whole body. It almost didn't seem real.
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  Speaker 1: I took a few steps back, staying quiet, and made
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  Speaker 1: my way back toward my room, and now on the
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  Speaker 1: other side of the door, I could see a huge
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  Speaker 1: dent in the wood right by the knob. Once I
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  Speaker 1: saw that, I ran in and locked it behind me,
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  Speaker 1: then called nine one one while hiding in the closet.
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  Speaker 1: I was sure that whoever it was had to be
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  Speaker 1: somewhere inside my apartment still, and it would only be
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  Speaker 1: a matter of time before they get into my room.
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  Speaker 1: But as I waited for the police, the apartment stayed silent,
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  Speaker 1: whoever had broken into my apartment was gone. Even the
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  Speaker 1: police couldn't find anything to help in finding them. What
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  Speaker 1: they think happened is the intruder tried buzzing all the
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  Speaker 1: other rooms as well, until one of them was nice
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  Speaker 1: enough to let them in once he was in the
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  Speaker 1: main stairwell. It's not really clear why he chose to
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  Speaker 1: go for my room. Maybe they thought it was empty.
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  Speaker 1: What's really strange is the dent on my bedroom door,
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  Speaker 1: which was likely the source of the thud that I'd
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  Speaker 1: woken up to. But it was just one single hit,
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  Speaker 1: not looking like a real attempt at breaking the door down,
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  Speaker 1: but more like something out of frustration before he left.
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  Speaker 1: I still live in the same apartment and nothing else
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  Speaker 1: has happened. Who it was and what they wanted is unknown.
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  Speaker 1: I work for a company that sells bulk out of
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  Speaker 1: a small warehouse. Sometimes the products we get in are
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  Speaker 1: pretty expensive, so I was hired as a security guard
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  Speaker 1: during the late hours of the day and most of
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  Speaker 1: the night. Being a small warehouse, there's not too much
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  Speaker 1: need to walk around the place all night. I spend
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  Speaker 1: most of my time in the office looking at a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of live camera feeds. During my first three years
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  Speaker 1: working there, I'd never had a single incident. No people
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  Speaker 1: ever came by at strange hours, no attempted break ins, nothing.
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  Speaker 1: It made for a boring job and left me mostly
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  Speaker 1: unaware every night, even though it was basically my job
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  Speaker 1: to be aware. On this night, I pulled into the
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  Speaker 1: small parking lot and parked by the front door, next
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  Speaker 1: to the car of the only other worker that was
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  Speaker 1: still there. When I got inside, I let him know
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  Speaker 1: I was there, and he left shortly after. I checked
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  Speaker 1: all the doors and made sure the systems were working properly.
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  Speaker 1: Then I sat back at the office and stared at
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  Speaker 1: the screens. My attention span died out after half an hour,
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  Speaker 1: and I pulled my phone out. I still made sure
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  Speaker 1: to check the cameras every thirty seconds or so, but
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  Speaker 1: every glance back at the screens showed no differences. Then,
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  Speaker 1: at just a couple minutes before one am, the system
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  Speaker 1: made a beep sound. I'd only ever heard it during
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  Speaker 1: the initial tests i'd do at the beginning of my shifts,
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  Speaker 1: so this was the first time i'd actually had something
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  Speaker 1: come up. After a quick look at the alert, it
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  Speaker 1: was a motion detection of a person walking by the building.
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  Speaker 1: It took a few tries to find the right camera,
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  Speaker 1: but on the back side of the building, a man
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  Speaker 1: was walking right on the edge of where the parking
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  Speaker 1: lot meets the grass. He had a thick hoodie on
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  Speaker 1: and was too far to see exactly what he looked like.
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  Speaker 1: The direction he was walking in wasn't really toward anywhere, though.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's why I'd never gotten alert before, because
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  Speaker 1: our building is too far out of the way for
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  Speaker 1: anyone to ever have a reason to walk or drive
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  Speaker 1: by it. I watched this man go down to the
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  Speaker 1: end of the parking lot, switching cameras to keep track
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  Speaker 1: of him, but then he suddenly stopped for just a
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  Speaker 1: moment and looked toward the building. He turned his head
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  Speaker 1: back and forth, looking across the whole side, then started
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  Speaker 1: to walk onto the pavement and toward the side of
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  Speaker 1: the building. Immediately it went from just odd to possibly
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  Speaker 1: something I'd have to report on. The man walked along
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  Speaker 1: the side, looking at every door he came across, but
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  Speaker 1: not trying anything. He would just kind of look around
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  Speaker 1: and then move on. Once he got to the corner,
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  Speaker 1: he went around to the front and then went right
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  Speaker 1: up to the main door. I watched from the cameras
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  Speaker 1: as he knocked on the door and heard it echo
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  Speaker 1: from inside the building. I got up from my chair
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  Speaker 1: and opened the office door, slowly looking down the hallway
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  Speaker 1: and seeing the man standing behind the entrance doors. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think he could see me through the glare on
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  Speaker 1: the glass, so I stood in the doorway and just
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  Speaker 1: watched him for a moment. He was trying to look
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  Speaker 1: through and knocked on the door again. I went back
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  Speaker 1: into the office and pressed on the speaker button that
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  Speaker 1: allowed me to talk to them outside. This is a
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  Speaker 1: private location, you need to leave. I watched on the
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  Speaker 1: cameras as the man looked up at the speaker. He
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  Speaker 1: looked like he was going to say something, but then
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  Speaker 1: he frowned and turned, knocking on the door again. In
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  Speaker 1: this moment, something just struck me with an intense, eerie feeling.
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  Speaker 1: It was some sort of gut reaction to this man's behavior.
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  Speaker 1: I looked closer, noticing he was keeping one hand in
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  Speaker 1: his pocket the whole time, making me think this could
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  Speaker 1: be far more dangerous than I'd initially thought. I contacted
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  Speaker 1: the police through our security line, getting instant connection with
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  Speaker 1: them and starting to explain the situation. I walked back
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  Speaker 1: into the hallway and looked down while I talked to
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  Speaker 1: the dispatcher, But the man suddenly pulled something out of
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  Speaker 1: his pocket and slammed it against the door. I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: see what it was, but from the way it hit
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  Speaker 1: the door and the sound it made, I knew it
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  Speaker 1: was some kind of metal object that he was trying
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  Speaker 1: to break the glass with. I rushed back into the office,
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  Speaker 1: hearing a few more hits as I locked the heavy
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  Speaker 1: door behind me. Then I quickly looked back at the cameras,
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  Speaker 1: but by then the man had given up and was
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  Speaker 1: running away from the building. In only a few seconds,
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  Speaker 1: he was completely out of sight of any of the cameras.
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  Speaker 1: It was as I waited for the police to arrive
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  Speaker 1: that I replayed the footage of when the man hit
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  Speaker 1: the door, seeing pretty clearly that he was holding a
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  Speaker 1: small gun and slamming the handle against the glass. We
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  Speaker 1: got a full report on it, but so far, even
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  Speaker 1: with some decent footage of the man, he hasn't been identified.
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  Speaker 1: We also don't know what he was intending to do
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  Speaker 1: once he got in, though he made it obvious after
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  Speaker 1: hearing my voice that he did not care that I
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  Speaker 1: was inside, but from the partial crack formed on the door,
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  Speaker 1: he was likely just a few hits away from shattering it,
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  Speaker 1: and then I would have been forced to find out
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  Speaker 1: the man's true intentions. I work part time at a
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  Speaker 1: gas station in my city. It's more on the edge
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  Speaker 1: of the city, near the suburbs, and overall is just
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  Speaker 1: a very typical gas station. It's not super creepy or
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  Speaker 1: isolated or anything like that. I only really chose to
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  Speaker 1: work here, though, because rent prices were going up and
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  Speaker 1: my other job wasn't cutting it. The only shift I
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  Speaker 1: could do to work around my other schedule was overnight,
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  Speaker 1: and gas stations are one of the few places offering
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  Speaker 1: those shifts. Anyway, this was just ten months ago. It
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  Speaker 1: was pretty cold out this night, and there was some
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  Speaker 1: snow on the ground still from a heavy downfall a
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  Speaker 1: few days ago, but other than that, the night was
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  Speaker 1: going pretty typical. Being in the suburbs, there's not a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot of traffic going around the gas station. It's
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  Speaker 1: mostly just a couple cars passing by every once in
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  Speaker 1: a while. By twelve, only a handful of cars were
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  Speaker 1: coming into the gas station every hour. After a bit.
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  Speaker 1: I got bored enough to leave the front desk and
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  Speaker 1: walk around the shop, rearranging the items on the shelves
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  Speaker 1: to look nice, and it was just a couple minutes
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  Speaker 1: that I heard the door open. I turned around and
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  Speaker 1: saw a man walking in, right up to the front desk.
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  Speaker 1: He leaned over the counter and looked both ways as
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  Speaker 1: if he were looking for someone to help him. Can
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  Speaker 1: I help you with something? I said? As I made
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  Speaker 1: my way back to the counter. The man turned and
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  Speaker 1: looked at me, almost as if I'd scared him, but
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  Speaker 1: then he hesitated before saying no, I'm good and walking
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  Speaker 1: out of the store. It was fairly obvious he did
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  Speaker 1: need help with something, but seeing that made me quickly
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  Speaker 1: think of the possible robbery he was plotting. I did
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  Speaker 1: work at a gas station, after all, so it was
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  Speaker 1: kind of always in the back of my mind. I
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  Speaker 1: watched the guy go outside and into a car that
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  Speaker 1: was parked in a very strange spot, kind of near
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  Speaker 1: the pumps but not actually in the parking section. He
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  Speaker 1: got in and drove away. I had no way to
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  Speaker 1: tell if he was actually planning something, but all of
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  Speaker 1: the signs pointed to it. I figured maybe being behind
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  Speaker 1: him when he walked in and not at the counter,
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  Speaker 1: threw him off, and somehow that was enough to deter him.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever happened, I was confident after a few minutes of
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  Speaker 1: thinking that this was definitely an attempted robbery, and I
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  Speaker 1: called the police to report it, just in case they
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  Speaker 1: were going to try a different gas station. They said
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  Speaker 1: an officer would come by in just a couple minutes
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  Speaker 1: to get a report, so I hung up and waited,
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  Speaker 1: But not even a minute later, that same car pulled
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  Speaker 1: back into the parking lot. They went right to the
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  Speaker 1: spot that they had parked before then just waited there
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  Speaker 1: with the car on. But I was almost positive that
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  Speaker 1: I could see movement in both of the front seats,
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  Speaker 1: like there were at least two people in there. I
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  Speaker 1: quickly locked the front doors and prepared myself for what
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  Speaker 1: could soon happen as I continued looking out the window,
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  Speaker 1: though the car just stayed there, nobody getting out, like
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  Speaker 1: they were watching or waiting for the perfect moment. Luckily, though,
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  Speaker 1: cops pulled in and immediately recognized the car as I
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  Speaker 1: described it. They pulled in behind it, blocking them in. Surprisingly,
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  Speaker 1: there wasn't much of a scene. The officer pretty much
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  Speaker 1: just walked up and then pulled two men out, one
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  Speaker 1: of which was the guy that had come in earlier.
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  Speaker 1: I guess they were trying to play it off like
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  Speaker 1: they weren't doing anything, but that didn't really work out
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  Speaker 1: for them. While it seemed to be straightforward what they
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  Speaker 1: had planned, their car showed a different, more disturbing possibility.
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  Speaker 1: In the trunk, there was a stash of weapons, along
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  Speaker 1: with rope, tape and an assortment of similar items. Both
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  Speaker 1: men are behind bars, but I still feel almost traumatized
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  Speaker 1: after knowing what they had in the car. If I
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  Speaker 1: hadn't reported them after the first strange interaction, I would
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  Speaker 1: have been through far worse than just being robbed, and
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  Speaker 1: possibly would have never been seen after that night.